HN Daily - May 17, 2026

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Sunday episode: Mozilla pushes back on UK regulators considering age-gating VPNs Why AI doesn't make your processes faster - it just moves the bottleneck upstream Gruber: AI is technology, not a product (like wireless networking) Apple Silicon vs OpenRouter: local inference is ~3x the cost of the cloud Native all the way... until you need text - WebKit beats SwiftUI for chat UIs Best of the Week: revisiting how frontier AI has broken open CTFs

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